CALGARY, Alberta — Menards, N.Y.; Caledonia, Wis.; and Ossian, Iowa, will be new stops this year for the Canadian Pacific Holiday train, which announced its 2019 schedule and performers on Wednesday.
The U.S. train will feature Alan Doyle and Beautiful Band in New York, with Meghan Patrick, Tanika Charles, and Kelly Prescott providing the entertainment from Chicago until that train’s final show in Gleichen, Alberta. Acadian folk-music group Vishten will perform at all stops in Quebec, the starting point for both trains.
The Canadian train will feature Scott Helman and Madeline Merlo from Monreal to Calgary, and Terri Clark and another performer to be announced later handling the western dates.
The U.S. train, which also makes stops in Saskatchewan and Alberta, starts its travels on Nov. 25 and concludes on Dec. 18. The Canadian train begins in Montreal on Nov. 26 and concludes in the Vancouver area on Dec. 17.
The complete routes and schedules are available at CP’s Holiday Train website.
Always a highlight! Thanks Canadian Pacific.
Nice that Canadian Pacific runs a Holiday Christmas Train, I wish Metrolink here in SoCal still ran its Christmas Train.
It’s Menands, with an “n,” not Menards. A suburb of Albany. Recall that last year, at the last minute, Amtrak, in its infinite wisdom and in the holiday spirit, cancelled the USMC-sponsored “Toys For Tots” train that would have traveled along this same “Adirondack” route north from Albany. The portion of the TFT route from Binghamton east was covered by a private train blessed by NS and pulled together by Bennett Levin so at least some of the kids weren’t disappointed.